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The Cervical Spine Infected After Surgery

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Cervical Spine II

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Complications after anterior cervical spinal surgery are infrequent, and usually due to technical error. Infection is a strikingly rare complication [2, 4], in comparison to infection in the thoracic or lumbar spine. In reviewing the combined cases of our two clinics, we came across four cases of deep infection over the past eight years. Curiously, the cervical spine is infrequently affected even in cases of hematogenous osteomyelitis, with figures ranging from 4–11% of all spinal osteomyelitis [3].

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  1. Bremerhaven, Germany

    U. Rodegerdts & D. R. Rao

  2. Osnabrück, Federal Republic of Germany

    A. Weidner

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  1. Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, France

    René Louis M.D.

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Paracelsus-Klinik, Osnabrück, Federal Republic of Germany

    Andreas Weidner

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Rodegerdts, U., Rao, D.R., Weidner, A. (1989). The Cervical Spine Infected After Surgery. In: Louis, R., Weidner, A. (eds) Cervical Spine II. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9055-5_22

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